Oh, but that's not the best part. The best part is that this fake Cliffs
Notes version of LOTR actually fooled someone. An article actually
appeared in the Times of London last year on Cate Blanchett's appearance as
Galadriel which included, stated as fact "for the uninitiated", one
spectacularly silly piece of misinformation from the fake synopsis.

Here's the original article if you want to discover the whopper for yourself:

> Stolzi@... wrote:
>
> > http://www.speakeasy.org/~ohh/homework.htm
>
> Oh, but that's not the best part. The best part is that this fake Cliffs
> Notes version of LOTR actually fooled someone. An article actually
> appeared in the Times of London last year on Cate Blanchett's appearance

as

> Galadriel which included, stated as fact "for the uninitiated", one
> spectacularly silly piece of misinformation from the fake synopsis.

That wasn't the only person who was fooled. I forwarded the URL to a
co-worker who's fond of Tolkien and has read the posthumous publications.
(Yes, David, Cynthia.) Figuring that surely she would realize it was a hoax
designed to discourage kids who cheat on book reports, I was shocked to get
a reply from her saying that it was pretty good, but she thought the writer
got a couple of facts wrong. Just a couple? The fact that it was a spoof
went totally by her -- and I even left the "hee, hee, hee...." as the
subject of the message!

Berni

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